Maharashtra Maritime Development Policy will be the most investor-friendly policy in the country: Nitesh Narayan Rane
by Bhavna SJ State ports minister points to ₹26,500 crore shipyard and full conversion of investment pledges as FICCI opens Maritime India Conference & Expo with the Netherlands as partner country FICCI–Crisil report calls for competitive steel prices, domestic manufacturing scale and assured demand to build a globally competitive container industry Mumbai, 2 November 2026: Maharashtra will shortly unveil a maritime development policy that it says will be the most investor-friendly in India. The state is competing with its coastal neighbours for a share of the country’s shipbuilding and port investment boom. Shri Nitesh Narayan Rane, Minister of Fisheries and Ports Development, Government of Maharashtra, told the inaugural session of the FICCI’s Maritime India Conference & Expo 2026that investors would receive “red carpet treatment” and single-window clearance. He cited a tripartite agreement signed last month between the state, the Union government and Mazagon Doc...